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Optical bistability in the CO2 laser: the regular- to sequence-band switching

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Abstract

Optical bistability is demonstrated in a CO2 laser with an intracavity hot CO2 cell switching between regular- and sequence-band lines. The relaxation coupling between CO2 vibrational modes, which leads to cross saturation in competing gains, explains the observed results.

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